Raymond Carver's Short Stories
Raymond Carver’s Short Stories
In reading both stories “Mine” and “Little Things” and another which is basically the same as the second story “Little Things” but with a different name “Popular Mechanics”. “Mind was written in 1977, “Popular Mechanics” which was rewritten in 1981, and finally Mr. Carver retitled the story as “Little Things”. The original story was rewritten with subtle small changes and it changed the direction in which the reader focuses his attention. All of these small changes to me make the newer “Little Things” a better version than the first one “Mine”.
These stories seems to bring out Mr. Carvers past experiences in his failed marriage, where romance is now in the past and the couple’s relationship is rapidly …show more content…
Carver made the relationship between the man and the woman seem more colder and their arguments more intense over the baby in “Mine”. One such example comes when the woman said you’re hurting him and he does not talk again which gives the expression that the man does not care if the baby is hurt, Mr. Carver emphasizes twice that he pulled back on the baby as the woman is trying to take him away from the man. An example of the argument being more intense is the wording to when the woman says “Sonofabitch!” with the words bunched together gives the impression that she is screaming at the man. In “Little Things” that wording had changed to words spelled out with proper spacing which to me implies that it is an expression but not yelled out as in “Mine”. Another which I believe had started this is when she notices the baby’s picture picked it up and took it with her to the living room and in his mind he wanted it …show more content…
For instances, in “Mine”, the story leaves the bedroom as he looked at the bedroom then moves into the kitchen all in one paragraph. In “Little Things” he looks around the bedroom as though he wants to see if he had forgotten anything else, which ends the paragraph then moves into the kitchen in another paragraph. In “Mine” it seems to focus more on the argument, whereas in “Little Things”, the people stand out as the major part of the
In reading both stories “Mine” and “Little Things” and another which is basically the same as the second story “Little Things” but with a different name “Popular Mechanics”. “Mind was written in 1977, “Popular Mechanics” which was rewritten in 1981, and finally Mr. Carver retitled the story as “Little Things”. The original story was rewritten with subtle small changes and it changed the direction in which the reader focuses his attention. All of these small changes to me make the newer “Little Things” a better version than the first one “Mine”.
These stories seems to bring out Mr. Carvers past experiences in his failed marriage, where romance is now in the past and the couple’s relationship is rapidly …show more content…
Carver made the relationship between the man and the woman seem more colder and their arguments more intense over the baby in “Mine”. One such example comes when the woman said you’re hurting him and he does not talk again which gives the expression that the man does not care if the baby is hurt, Mr. Carver emphasizes twice that he pulled back on the baby as the woman is trying to take him away from the man. An example of the argument being more intense is the wording to when the woman says “Sonofabitch!” with the words bunched together gives the impression that she is screaming at the man. In “Little Things” that wording had changed to words spelled out with proper spacing which to me implies that it is an expression but not yelled out as in “Mine”. Another which I believe had started this is when she notices the baby’s picture picked it up and took it with her to the living room and in his mind he wanted it …show more content…
For instances, in “Mine”, the story leaves the bedroom as he looked at the bedroom then moves into the kitchen all in one paragraph. In “Little Things” he looks around the bedroom as though he wants to see if he had forgotten anything else, which ends the paragraph then moves into the kitchen in another paragraph. In “Mine” it seems to focus more on the argument, whereas in “Little Things”, the people stand out as the major part of the